Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier
In Make Tech Easier, we aim to cover as many tech-related tutorials as possible and make them easy to follow. However, I must admit that we are short of manpower and we only cover tech related stuff. What Tildee does is to allow any people to create a tutorial easily on any topic and share it with their friends. It also contains a good library of the how-to articles where you can search for help.
Here’s how it works.
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Be it a good friend’s party or just easing up your everyday work stress, music is a great way to set the mood right and be more productive at work.
I am always plugged into new songs on my portable iPod or desktop computer, regardless of whatever I am doing. However, I also enjoy finding new songs that are still missing from my iPod playlists. In such situations, Internet Radio saves the day.
Radio channels streamed from the internet is a great way to listen to latest tunes as well as old classics. Things are pretty random with radio streaming, so if you are looking for a tool that will let you enjoy online radio stations from all over the world, try Nexus radio.
With a collection of over 15 million tracks and 11000+ radio stations listed, you will never get bored with music streamed with this free application.
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I was in my quest to find online education tools when I stumbled upon Edu 2.0. After playing with it for a while, I think it’s safe to say that Edu 2.0 is by far the most complete online educational tool that I’ve come across. It goes as far as enabling users to virtually create online school in one click.
Few examples of the tons of features that Edu 2.0 offers are: massive resource of community contributed teaching and learning materials, mobile access, online quizzes, group discussion, and question banks. But the best part is: everything is accessible for free.
If the thought of building a school is too grand for you, Edu 2.0 is also fit for those who only want to manage a small class, creating a short online course about a topic, or simply as a place to host a tutorial.
So let’s take a peek at this great service.
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One of the problems with email attachments and using a browser based email client is the amount of time it takes to upload all the attachments. If you are using a slow internet connection, you know how frustrating it can be to upload multiple attachments to a new email message. Sometimes, the connections may fail in the middle and you have to start the process all over again.
Uploading multiple files simultaneously may also freeze the browser. For instance: if you are using Firefox and try to upload some PDF documents of high file size, there are chances that Firefox may stop responding. In such situations it becomes difficult to save the draft which kills your precious time
Another problem with attachments is when you want to find them later. If you send and receive dozens of emails every single day, you might not remember the date and actual message thread of the uploaded attachment. In such situations, you have to search the file in your computer or ask one of the recipients to forward you the attachment.
What if we can use a desktop tool to upload attachments to our Gmail account? What if we can store an online copy of all the attachments to a file hosting provider for free ? In this tutorial we will learn how to automatically archive all the email attachments to a free file hosting provider (using Drop.io)
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In the past when the files are less than 1.44MB in size, you can simply save the file to a floppy disk and pass it to your friend. Now, when the file size are far bigger than a DVD can hold, you would have to think of an alternative method to send the files to your friends. To send large files online, most of them will think of sites like SendBigFiles, YouSendIt and etc. Now, there is a new player in the field and it allows you to send up to a whopping 500MB of files, right from your desktop.
quanp is an online storage service created by Japanese copier giant – Ricoh and quanp send is their latest product that integrates the sending of big files with the online storage service. When you sign up for quanp (currently in beta), you will receive a 10GB storage space for free (most online storage services only offer 2GB for free, so 10GB is a lot of space), and you can make use of this account to store and send large files to your friends.
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Flame wars over one’s choice of editor are a regular occurrence on almost all the tech mailing lists that I subscribe to. In fact, in my opinion, the amount of time and energy that is spent on debating this topic can be easily spent on researching the feature set of a perfect editor that would fit everyone’s needs.
But, since that is really a far fetched thought, I decided to spend some thinking of the best ways to make my workflow as a web developer as editor agnostic as possible.
And what did I come up with ?
Online Code Editors. These are editors that run online and are available from any computer anywhere in the world. So, without further ado, here is a list of some of my favorite online editors.
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We all know that Adobe Photoshop is the best software out there for photo editing/image creation. We must also admit that it is far too expensive for most of us to afford it. Luckily, for casual users like us, there are several free online tools that can help you edit your digital images. Some of them even come with layers and allow you to do pixel leveling editing. Read along to find out more about these useful online photo editing tools.
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